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...might be tempted to describe Lee Bontecou as elfin. There's no denying that she's small and lean. And when she tilts forward to tell you, "I'm shy," you can take it to the bank. At 72 she has the same Dutch-boy haircut that she had four decades ago, when she was dynamiting a place for herself in the New York art world. Back then she must have reminded people of the writer Carson McCullers, who would have seemed pixieish only until you read...
Viktor and Rolf are crestfallen. The Dutch designers - fashion-set favorites who are now out to prove that they're not too quirky for mainstream success - are in London for their first-ever movie premiere, the opening of Young Adam, starring Ewan McGregor and their friend and muse Tilda Swinton. Part of Leicester Square is cordoned off and Swinton, whose short red hair and long black chiffon Viktor & Rolf dress make her look like a fiery upside-down exclamation point, is signing autographs and posing. Viktor and Rolf trail behind her. It's all so nearly perfect, and yet ? "There...
...strength of your voice or the profundity of your lyrics (see “Sometimes”). You’re still relevant because your “Satisfaction” striptease is forever in my Shared Folder and fantasy file, because my stomach still plays Double Dutch when I hear “I’m a Slave 4 U” and envision the shocking pink lace on leather. It’s the videos, the performances, the packaging that bring us to our knees and you to the pages of Forbes. Props for losing the brown...
...Hazy Skies KLM's years-long search for a partner finally ended last week when the loss-making Dutch airline agreed to merge with Air France. Both sides talked up the €784 million deal as an overdue consolidation of European airlines and promised it would create "substantial value for shareholders." Just how it might do so left investors and civil-aviation experts scratching their heads. Air France CEO Jean-Cyril Spinetta and KLM chief Leo van Wijk said the two firms won't cut staff and will operate as before from their hubs, Charles de Gaulle in Paris...
...Shrestha is particularly troubled by the deaths of Dutch tourists Henricus Bintanja and Cornelia Hemker whose burned corpses were found in Thailand a few days after the Kathmandu killings. Shrestha remembers the names well: when he interrogated Sobhraj and LeClerc in Nepal, they passed themselves off as Bintanja and Hemker, presenting him the two dead tourists' passports in which the pictures had been altered...